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  <title>Donate to MediaGoblin, get a chance at free PyCon tickets!</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2012-11-05 09:00" />
  <meta name="author" content="Christopher Allan Webber" />
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<p>Heya all!  We've got an exciting announcement to make this
morning!  We got a generous promotion/sponsorship from the
<a href="http://www.python.org/psf/">Python Software Foundation</a>...
the next 25 people who donate $200.00 or more will get a chance to get
free tickets to <a href="http://us.pycon.org/">PyCon US</a>!
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<p>If you're into programming, and especially Python, PyCon is a
conference that's not to be missed.  I can say from experience: I've
attended every US PyCon since 2008, and it is honestly the highest
quality programming-oriented conference I've ever gone to.  (I've even
<a href="http://pyvideo.org/video/411/pycon-2011--using-blender--39-s-new-bpy-python-ap">spoken
there before</a> and Deb, Will and I ran
a <a href="http://pyvideo.org/video/725/40-media-goblin-the-road-to-federation">poster
session on PyCon</a> in the past as well!)  And this is a great deal:
the individual rate for PyCon is $350 at regular rate, and $300 at
early bird rate.  Given that we're giving out two tickets to 25
people, that's a 1 in 12.5 chance you'll be chosen.  Those are good
odds!</p>

<p>And of course, either way you're already helping out a good cause
by donating to MediaGoblin.  You're helping the dream of decentralized
media publishing come true.  And, as it turns out, you're helping
prove that python webapplications can help save the world.  What more
could you ask for?</p>

<p>Well, you could maybe ask for more rewards... at $200 you've
already passed the $100 level:</p>

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           alt="Shert rewards" /></a>
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<p>That means that in addition to a chance to get a free trip to
PyCon, you already get a t-shirt, a postcard, a sponsored commit, a
virtual hug, and stickers!  But if you're really generous, you could
go up just $150 more:</p>

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     ><img src="/blog_images/campaign_plain_goblin_icon-enlarged.png"
           alt="Figurine rewards" /></a>
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<p>At that point you get a 3d printed figurine of our mascot,
Gavroche... plus a t-shirt, a postcard, a sponsored commit, a virtual
hug, stickers... and of course your chance at a ticket to PyCon!</p>

<p>So what are you waiting for?
<a href="/pages/campaign.html">Support MediaGoblin</a> and help
make the future of free and open source, python-based, decentralized
media hosting come true... and get a chance to go to the world's
greatest programming conference in the process!</p>

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